Electronic device with an interactive pressure sensitive multi-touch display

• US 9,778,840 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2016
• Issued: 10/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Haptic Synergy LLC (Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC)
• Original Assignee: HJ Laboratories, LLC
• Inventors: Vartanian, Harry, Jurikson-Rhodes, Jaron
• Primary Examiner(s): Haley, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Frank, Emily
• Application Number:
  US15/222,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20160334874A1
• Time in Patent Office: 432 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04809 Textured surface identifying touch areas, e.g. overlay structure for a virtual keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3208 organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 13/85 characterised by tactile feedback features
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2215/05 electromechanical
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2215/052 piezoelectric
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2217/006 : Different feeling for different switch sites
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2217/038 : Prompting
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/9643 : using a plurality of detectors, e.g. keyboard

Abstract

An information view may be displayed on a multi-touch display based on detected force or pressure from a push by a touch on a displayed image and from the push an indentation of a component portion.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a flexible multi-touch display configured to display an image on a dedicated pressure sensitive touch display area, wherein the electronic device comprises the dedicated pressure sensitive touch display area and a substantially proximate multi-touch display area;

a processor configured to cause display of an information view based on a touch on the image; and

the processor configured to cause display of a detailed information view based on pressure from a push by a touch on the displayed image and in relation to the push an indentation of a component portion.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein at least one of a vibration or haptic feedback is provided in association with the indentation.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the flexible multi-touch display is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display.

4. An electronic device comprising:

a multi-touch display configured to display an image, wherein a component portion is near the multi-touch display;

a processor configured to cause display, on the multi-touch display, of an information view based on detected pressure from a push by a touch on the displayed image and in relation to the push an indentation of the component portion; and

the processor configured to cause display of a detailed view of the information view based on a further indentation of the component portion.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the multi-touch display is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display.

6. A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying, by a multi-touch display, an image, wherein a component portion is near the multi-touch display;

displaying, on the multi-touch display, an information view based on detected pressure from a push by a touch on the displayed image and in relation to the push an indentation of the component portion; and

displaying, by the electronic device, a detailed view of the information view based on a further indentation of the component portion.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the multi-touch display is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display.

8. A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying, by a flexible multi-touch display of the electronic device, an image on a dedicated pressure sensitive touch display area, wherein the electronic device comprises the dedicated pressure sensitive touch display area and a substantially proximate multi-touch display area;

displaying, by the electronic device, an information view based on a touch on the image; and

displaying, by the electronic device, a detailed information view based on pressure from a push by a touch on the displayed image and in relation to the push an indentation of a component portion.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one of a vibration or haptic feedback is provided in association with the indentation.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the flexible multi-touch display is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display.